Thanks for following along with us but that will do for today’s live news coverage. You can pick it back up tomorrow from about 6.30am.
For the royal family fans out there, Latika Bourke and Thomas Mitchell will be live-blogging Harry and Meghan’s Netflix special tonight from about 7pm.
In the meantime, I’ll leave you with a reminder of the day’s major headlines:
- Australian workers are on track to pay the highest average personal income tax rates on record.
- Medibank will completely shut down this weekend for a cybersecurity overhaul after a serious data breach.
- Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has announced the federal government will establish a new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
- Hawthorn MP John Pesutto has been elected as Victoria’s new opposition leader after the Liberal Party lost the state election.
- Senior federal minister Chris Bowen said Australians have the right to be disappointed by the Bali bomb maker’s release after less than 12 years of a 20-year sentence.